putin`s nazism na(ENG).pdf

Natalia Davydova
psychoanalyst, candidate of historical sciences
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Research summary
Putin’s Nazism: the structure of
the perverse psyche
Freedom to perpetrate violence as
the core of Putin’s Nazism
Nazism factory: the role of
propaganda
Why has Russia been seized by
the epidemic of Nazism? The role
of perverse ruling class, social
frustration, ressentiment and the
repressive apparatus
Conclusions
Author’s afterword

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Putin's nazism: a glance through the prism of psychoanalysis
Research
summary

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Why should Ukraine and the world get to
understand the deep meaning of the “Russian
world”?
For more than three months the main topic around the world has been the war waged by Russia against Ukraine. It
was difficult to believe that in the XXI century’s Europe an attack on a peaceful nation was possible; it was yet more
difficult to realize that Nazism, long forgotten as a sick dream, had engulfed a vast country. What’s different: Russian
Nazis refer to themselves as “fighters against Nazism”, and they now have nuclear weapons.
It would seem that the lessons of WWII should help humanity unite and prevent Putin’s regime from continuing to
commit war crimes. However, far from all politicians and even intellectuals are aware of the need to fight Nazism.
How is it even possible after what happened in Bucha, Borodianka and Mariupol not to realize how dangerous “the
Russian world” is?
What prevents the whole civilized world from
fully opening its eyes to the essence of
Putin’s Nazism?
Besides such obvious reasons as obtaining personal and “geopolitical” benefits, there are also certain psychological
gains:
Firstly – the threat to narcissism, since admitting that Putin’s ideology is Nazi ideology would mean any country
could be nazified under certain conditions.
Secondly – the political correctness and cancel culture that make it a taboo to paint an entire country in a
negative light.
Thirdly – the trauma that Nazism is able to inflict even over distance. A person who is objectively safe can still
experience a whole range of reactions to trauma: denial, fear, lethargy, hebephrenic syndrome, etc.
Unless we symbolize the trauma, the point of the cut will be filled with delusions and illusions that hinder our
understanding of the essence, purpose and motivation of Putin’s regime. By taking advantage of the above Russian
authorities are able to influence the West. This becomes obvious when European and American politicians are
heeding and echoing (often unknowingly) Putin’s propaganda.
At the same time, mistakes and illusions are becoming more and more costly today. Every new day of hesitation
brings with it not only new deaths but also the risk of this Nazism outbreak becoming an epidemic, or
even a pandemic. That’s why it’s very important now to fill the gaps in our understanding of Nazism, and to study
this phenomenon as well as its supporters. Understanding “the Russian world” will give us tools for action.

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The approach to the analysis
This research is based on propaganda statements made by government officials and private individuals. Since it’s
propaganda, it won’t be very useful to try to extract information from the content itself. Much more interesting would be
to pay attention to slips of the tongue, mistakes, inconsistencies, illogicalities, emotional implications, etc. In the study,
Lacanian psychoanalysis has been applied.
This report outlines the results of our research into several aspects of Putin’s Nazism:
the psychological portrait of its adept;
the reasons / conditions for its emergence and rise;
the essence of “the Russian world” and its “freedom”;
the role of Putin’s propaganda in modern Russian, mechanisms and methods of its influence;
the interaction between propaganda and the repressive apparatus.
The perverse essence of Putin’s Nazism
The first thing that would help make sense of the new phenomenon and understand a Nazi is admitting that we’re fac-
ing a different psychic structure that is not intuitively comprehensible to us being completely different from our own.
The analysis of propagandist statements has shown that Putin’s Nazism is based on a perversion – namely, sadism.
The peculiarity of the perverse structure is the refusal to recognize the Law: a pervert’s thought and speech are
capable of containing mutually contradictory things such as: a “peaceful country” and a “country that attacked”, “shell-
ing residential buildings” and a “peaceful country”, even “I’ve shelled residential buildings” and “There’s no blood on
my hands”, etc. By adding an extra signifier a pervert is able to break the conventional Law without consequences for
their psyche. For instance, a pedophile pervert knows that he’s hurting a child (it’s nearly impossible to find an opposing
view) but rejects that knowledge by adding the additional condition “this depraved child has made me the tool of his
enjoyment” – and since the pedophile is but a tool of the child’s enjoyment, he’s not doing any harm. The sadist’s
desire is destruction and authority, the most complete authority is to kill.
Based on peculiarities of a perverse structure it’s possible to explain many incomprehensible manifestations of “the Rus-
sian world”, such as the inhuman brutality of the Nazis in the occupied territories. The pervert’s subjectivity isn’t formed
yet; he sees himself as the tool of desire (violence) of the Other.
He lacks guilt and empathy. Similarly, other people are non-actors and therefore their bodies or lives lack any value in
the Nazi’s eyes. Moreover, a lack of subjectivity may limit one’s capacity for analysis, profound learning, and reflection,
while a lack of understanding needs filling with delusions (e.g., conspiracy theories) and magical thinking. That explains
a superficial copying of things and processes (Alyosha the Robot, democracy).
His emotional sphere outside of his desire for violence is limited by pure self-interest. The pervert can neither perceive
nor understand love, grief, or compassion.
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The freedom to perpetrate violence as the
core of Putin’s Nazism
A Nazi leads his struggle for violence even when it contradicts his interests and logic. A Nazi of the Putin
format struggles for his highest value – freedom; however, that freedom lies in his right to practice sadism wher-
ever his victim can permit it. The only guilt, the only sin for “the Russian world” is becoming a victim, dis-
playing weakness. Who could be a better enemy for a sadist than Europe, where thanks to political correctness
there’s a unique situation of violence deficit? The Nazi considers the West unfree because a strong person there is
bound by law and political correctness, while “the Russian world” is free, because one can freely practice violence to-
wards the vulnerable without any consequences. The dictatorship of the weak and the voluntary castration of the strong
is seen by the Nazi as a hideous violation of “traditions” – that’s why “the West is rotting.” The national idea of “the
Russian world” is sadism, the right to use violence against a victim, who is guilty by default. In this report
we’re going to focus in detail on what chaos Russia “exports” to the West, and who that collective Other is, whose tools
the supporters of Putin’s Nazism actually are.
Why has Russia been seized by the epidemic
of Nazism? The role of perverse ruling class,
social frustration, ressentiment and the
repressive apparatus
Naturally, not all 140 million Russians are subjects with perverse structure prone to sadism. However, the majority of
Russians have been infected with perversion, and their goal is to perpetrate violence everywhere their victim
can’t fight back.
What made it possible to nazify a giant country in only 30 years? The consumerist society's repressive “order
to enjoy” has brought about a lot of aggression because of the enormous social and economic inequality. There are
few productive ways of expressing that aggression, since there are few ways available of improving one’s social status.
The consolation was found in ressentiment, which later on was used by a bunch of perverts who obtained access to
power. By producing sadistic propaganda (as no other propaganda can be produced by sadists) and strengthening
the repressive apparatus perverts had kept seducing and destroying until they nazified their country. The
tools and methods will be studied in this report.
Nazism factory: propaganda and the
repressive system
Nazi propaganda isn’t creating any new meanings or captivating ideas at the moment. It doesn’t need that. It has
infiltrated the psyche of Putin’s Nazism supporters and is holding it. Without propaganda the “Russian world”
warrior, who’s bringing the light of traditional values to the rotten West from the great (but very peaceful) country, will
turn out to be an ordinary citizen of a temperate climate zone, of average looks, from a country that won the battle
against fascism decades back.
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The Nazification catalyst is the repressive system, which works in the following directions: it punishes and
intimidates, it separates friends from foes and it brings about the Stockholm syndrome.
The key method of Putin’s propaganda is its mass character, the area bombardment by messages. By en-
gaging a large number of agents of influence on numerous platforms it creates the effect of the message being su-
per-popular, obtaining not those who believe in the messages but those who believe in the believers of those messages
(interpassivity1
). Since Nazis don’t experience guilt but only its ersatz – “what will others think?” – the belief in believers
becomes enough to believe that bombing residential buildings or murdering children is socially approved and even
worthy of praise.
Interacting with Nazis’ perverse psyche:
misconceptions and traps
By viewing a Nazi as a perverse sadist we’re able to answer a number of questions.
Question one: what absolutely infernal evil are we facing and what wicked plans is it still capable of implementing?
It turns out that there’s a diagnosis for this “evil” and science has already encountered this phenomenon, even though
it doesn’t lend itself well to therapy. The sadist will definitely be scheming, but as he does everything superficially, his
schemes are bound to be far from perfect.
Question two: why can’t we reach understanding with a pervert, achieving a mutually beneficial solution? Let’s imagine
the following situation. One side wants to avoid bloodshed and prevent a world war. To this end, it will appeal to kind-
ness and peace as the absolute value, conduct itself as if both sides are interested in peace and preserving lives. The
sadist, however, wishes to enjoy the psychological destruction of negotiators, the annihilation of the enemy’s country,
to see his grandiose reflection in the eyes of others and get the quickest possible reward. The first party projects their
own psychological apparatus – including its feeling of guilt – onto the Nazis, regarding them as similar neurotics, only
very angry and cynical. Therefore, it starts appealing to conscience and common sense, and threaten with dire conse-
quences for the country.
The sadist, however, views others through her own reflection where there’s no feeling of guilt, other people’s lives are
worthless, and war is as valuable for them as heroin is for a drug addict. Appeals to kindness appear to remain unheard.
The pervert fills the incomprehensible with fantasies and delusions, thinking that the opponent is merely a hypocrite who
wishes for peace only out of fear. And if he is scared then he has fewer soldiers, less military equipment, and fewer
nuclear warheads; hence, he’s a victim that needs to be destroyed. You can’t scare a sadist with dire consequences
for their country. When the opponent appeals to consciousness, it is seen as desperation - and therefore
it’s time to attack. Such negotiations are to no avail from the point of view of the declared subject matter. They can
have secondary goals, though: to feint the desire to reach an agreement, to exert psychological pressure, to maintain
the façade of “a peaceful country” etc.
By understanding the essence of Nazism we can get rid of dangerous illusions that Putin’s propaganda is using. For
example, would it have been possible to avoid the war had Zelensky not mentioned nuclear weapons? Or if there had
been more Ukrainian speakers? Or if Putin’s officials hadn’t lied to him about Ukrainians waiting for “the Russian world”
with open arms? Or if Zelensky had proven that Ukraine is not under the dictatorship of Nazism? Of course not. The
pervert first makes a decision and then looks for justifications. Surveys, the bomb, Nazis – their only purpose is keeping
the semblance of order in a perverse psyche. The desire to destroy is primary, all else exists only to torture
the victim a bit longer, and to take advantage of the Stockholm syndrome and witch hunts in the future.
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It is a mistake to try to defend oneself against Nazis’ accusations. Perverts view everything through their
own reflection, glancing over the surface. Whatever is under water, they only see it through themselves, unable
to penetrate underwater. For example, “Nazi biolabs” mean that Russia already has such biolabs or is planning
to build them; “Ukraine is rapidly getting poor ” means that “Russia has big problems because of sanctions” etc.
The most dangerous of all the misconceptions is trying to “appease” the aggressor, wishing to save his face
by introducing tough limitations. Within the logic of a perverse structure the narcissist rage of castration is
not the most dreadful thing. The most dreadful thing is when a sadist doesn’t meet any obstacles and
immerses himself completely in jouissance, loses himself and pushes the nuclear button to rid the planet
of “Nazism”.
Ukraine quickly realized what’s going on when it faced sadism. The rest of the world though is still
under the illusion of negotiations, face-saving and appeasement. Some Western intellectuals have capitu-
lated in advance. They pronounced the new Nazism “a hurricane” that can’t be stopped – it’s therefore better to
simply hide and wait while looking for ways of forcing Ukraine’s capitulation. At the same time, some countries and
politicians don’t understand what they are facing and put the whole world and order under threat, as this war is
not being waged for Ukraine, it is waged for humanity itself, for human dignity. If we lose then everyone
will lose, and those who survive will find themselves in such a reality that hasn’t been yet described by any dystopia.
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Putin’s Nazism:
the structure of the perverse
psyche

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Many of us had our first encounter with Putin’s military
propaganda when, during the first days of war, we,
shocked by initial missile strikes, picked up a call from
a relative (a friend, acquaintance , “that contact I met
at a conference”, “that guy I drank with in Egypt”) from
Russia. Some hypothetical “aunt from Rostov”, who just
last summer came to Odessa for a visit, is now shouting in
her phone that “Nazis have taken power in Ukraine, but
the Russian army is already on its way to attack “military
objects” with “high-precision strikes””. We just need to
have to be patient a bit and then “the miracle of denazi-
fication” will happen; until then – “I’m sending you rays of
kindness, and do try to think positively.” And then things
get from bad to worse. One careless move on a mes-
saging app - and your aunt is shoving information about
biolabs, infected birds, “the second army in the world”,
NATO’s aggression, military parades, nuclear warheads
and so on into your head. But you do feel: it’s not about
the warheads.
People, especially relatives, are used to helping and
empathizing with those who are in a vulnerable situa-
tion. Our aunt, however, replies to our story of bomb-
ings with: “we aren’t bombing anybody”, “its only military
objects we’re bombing”, “yes, Mother Russia does have
a lot of weapons – oh, what a parade we had in Mos-
cow”, “you just need to be patient for a bit”, “this is for
your own good, you’ll thank us later”, “you’re hardly be-
ing bombed, stop whining”, “and anyway – where have
you been these 8 years?” So first they question if you’re
actually telling the truth; then they question what you saw
with your own eyes; then they imply that there can be an
infinite amount of such shelling; then they depreciate your
well-justified anger, trying to force you into feeling unmo-
tivated gratitude, proclaiming this conversation irritating
and trying to induce guilt for the criminal actions of their
own aggressor country. It doesn’t look like support at all.
In fact, it doesn’t look like anything… human?
When trying to answer the question “What has hap-
pened to Russians?” people often try to give a simple an-
swer: it's the omnipotent propaganda that has deceived
Russians that is at fault, or Russians’ natural penchant for
obeying the dictator, including his propaganda. But the
natural penchant doesn’t explain, for example, the exist-
ence of pro-Putin supporters in other countries and why
not all ethnic Russians believe Putin’s propaganda. Prop-
aganda doesn’t seem that omnipotent: while an absolute
majority of Russians do support the war (according to
surveys from VCIOM, FOM, Russian Field, Menyailo,
Extremescan)3
, an absolute majority of Belarusians don’t
(the war is unconditionally supported by only 3% of
them)4
– despite the fact that Belarus watches the same
Putin’s TV, most of its population speak Russian, and the
country is within Russia’s cultural field. Moreover, Rus-
sians’ support for the “special military operation” has only
increased since the war started, and now it is majority
even in Moscow5
.
The inferior quality of Putin’s propaganda in 2022, its
deliberate incompleteness and carelessness on all levels
is another reason for doubt. For example, the concept
of war has changed several times already: “we’re help-
ing the Ukrainians and fighting against Nazis”, “tears of
Donbass”, “NATO wanted to attack us from Ukraine’s
territory”, “biolabs”, “we’re fighting against America that
fights us with Ukrainian hands”. What on earth do the let-
ters Z and V mean? Finally, why hasn’t Putin’s propagan-
da ever produced a single fake without obvious signs of
it being a fake?
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Contact
with another psyche
All we need is some order,
to protect ourselves from chaos 2
Deleuze G., Guattari F.
Contact 1. An aunt from Rostov has sent some
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For example, how could they have used pieces of foot-
age published long before the war even started to de-
nounce the Bucha genocide as fake, or sign “a docu-
ment” with “signature unclear” (just like in their statement
of work)? Their country is at war; was it their laziness that
prevented them from asking a question about the state-
ment of work or double-checking the facts?
Perhaps, the incredible charisma of some propagandists
is the reason? But many of us have tried to watch the
shows of Solovyov, Kisilyov, Skabeyeva or Simonyan.
We’ve hardly felt any desire to find ourselves in “the Rus-
sian world” that they depict: it looks rather like madmen’s
protest against discontinuing an anti-psychotic medica-
tion. This bedlam cannot be enough to turn your aunt
from feeding her grandson watermelon on a beach in
Odessa to calling for carpet bombings.
Yet, propaganda does work, people are ready to lose
money and relatives for it, some are even ready to go
and die or send their children to die. So what on earth
makes it effective?
It is Putin’s Nazism. I want to stress that I think it’s
more correct to keep using not “Rushism” but “Putin’s
Nazism” until we have a better word. What Russians
are professing today is fully consistent with every criteri-
on for Nazism in its ideological part 6
(as Yuliya Latynina
said about its essence: “Russians are the supreme na-
tion: if you don’t agree, you’re a Nazi.”). That’s why this
phenomenon is not unique enough to deserve a unique
name.
“Rushism” associates Nazism with a specific nation,
which is completely useless, since if that nation is the
cause, then to destroy Nazism you must destroy the na-
tion. If you think it is necessary to destroy a nation, then
you yourself has become a Nazi, thus refuting the thesis
that Nazism depends on a nation. This is how the fight
against Nazism reaches a dead-end. Moreover, it is
quite obvious that there are Nazis of other varieties and
from other nations. It's impossible to deny the key impor-
tance of Putin's propaganda for the Nazism of 2022, so
“Putin's Nazism” or simply Nazism seems more correct
to me.
. DuringitsfirstnegotiationswithUkraineRussiaputforward
an ultimatum that it was not going to discuss. The essence
of the ultimatum could be reduced to annihilation: at the
country level, Ukraine's subjectivity was to be destroyed,
and at the personal level, denazification was planned.
As we have already understood from the actions of
“denazifiers” this meant physical destruction. The fact that
no plan for denazification other than the destruction of
“the Nazis” was attached to the ultimatum or discussed in
the public space also speaks in favor of this implication.
Vladimir Zelensky and his team were specifically called
Nazis more than once. It follows that one of the points
of the ultimatum was to kill the negotiators from Ukraine.
Did negotiations actually start when Arahamia’s group
was told, “You must accept the fact that we will kill you”?
Was the Ukrainian team expected to participate in a
terrible performance, to play along, pretending that
Russian delegates were decent people, and that the
negotiations, whose outcome was to be the negotiators'
death, were something normal?
Humanlogicsuggeststhatpromisingtokillthenegotiators
if they accept the ultimatum does not increase the
likelihood of it being accepted. As a rule, people don't
want to die. What was that all about, then?
Each of us was left with a black hole in our worldview, in
a place where we learned about the crimes of Russian
soldiers in occupied territories. It was as if we gazed
into the abyss, at some creatures possessed by demons,
the apocalyptic ancient evil that slaughters people and
animals, destroys for fun, rapes women, men, children,
and old women; that mines unique historical monuments,
apartments, and home yards; that leaves ugly messages
Contact 2: Negotiations
Contact 3. “Liberated” cities and the
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on school walls and smears the walls of a neurology
clinic with excretions; that spares no money for shelling
peaceful homes.
It is impossible to find any rational explanation for such
systematic brutality. Intimidating the population? It makes
sense when the main hostilities are between guerilla
fighters and invaders: the more frightened the locals
are, the fewer guerilla fighters there are. Right now,
Russian military are mostly shot at by the Ukrainian army.
How are armed people supposed to be frightened by
shootings and torture of the unarmed population? On
the contrary, the thought of captivity will cause terror and
therefore surrender will not be considered. It would seem
more logical to show good attitude toward the locals
in order to win over the pro-Russian Ukrainians’ hearts,
rather than killing a loyal local MP who invited Russian
soldiers to his house and poured them some vodka.
Besides, isn't it obvious that massive Russian war crimes
will only increase support for Ukraine, which means
more weapons and more sanctions? So what could
have prompted these atrocities?
Going back to the aunt from Rostov situation: her “be
patient, be smart: this is for your own good, soon
everything will be over and the denazification will begin”
reminds me very much of something. It reminds of the
stories of pedophilia victims.
Pedophiles, in addition to destroying a child's body,
seek to break them mentally. Contradictory messages,
the denial of any knowledge that the victim received
from their own senses, the depreciation of emotions,
the demand that the victim tolerate, or rather receive
all the horror with gratitude, as some sort of help or
education, the order to enjoy what is happening – all
of that is expressed by your own relative, as if she
were not a pensioner from a bedroom community, but
a sophisticated libertine from the pages of Marquis de
Sade, perpetrating violence for violence's sake at every
opportunity while despising utilitarian rationality.
That weird feeling of contact with the inhuman, the alien,
which arises on contact with a supporter of Putin's Nazism,
gives us a clue to the essence of the phenomenon, as it
turns out that our psyche interacts with another cosmos,
another way of psychic organization – an inverted,
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When talking about a pervert, I don’t mean sexual per-
version. It can be present or not present (not every per-
vert acts out his perversion, not every pervert expresses
his perversion though sex, and not every sexual perver-
sion is performed by a pervert.) First of all, after Jacques
Lacan8
, that implies a special way of organizing a
psyche, a special way of handling the Law9
.
It should be stated at the outset that I do not believe that
all those who support Putin's Nazism are subjects with
a perverse structure or that there are 140 million sadis-
tic maniacs living in Russia. In that society, just like in
any other, all structures can be found. However, the dis-
course of Russian propaganda is blatantly perverse, and
the perversion, which is in all of us (but repressed to such
a degree that we are unaware of it) is awakened in a
Nazi of the Putin format: it is no longer repressed and is
partially or fully realized. The Russian society is infected
with sadism.
One peculiarity of the perverse structure is that the per-
vert is able to respond to the Law with “yes” and “no”
at the same time, he both accepts and rejects the Law
(Verleugnung). In his psychic reality two mutually exclu-
sive things can peacefully co-exist. For example, when
asked “Do you know that you are mortal?” the pervert
can answer “I know very well that I am mortal but still I’m
not.” This “I know that very well, but...” is the basis of the
pervert's psyche.
Meduza10
published a piece of research on what sup-
porters of Putin's war propaganda say. The journalist who
conducted the research pointed out that war sympathiz-
ers combine contradictory things in a striking manner:
“Americans wanted to take over Ukraine. No one needs
that useless country,” “Did Russia attack Ukraine? – No.
I mean yes, but we weren't the first ones”, “So you don't
like the war? Then why aren't you going to that war?” etc.
There is a strange pleasure and agitation in saying these
words, and the journalist compares it to a trance.
For comparison, a neurotic may answer “yes” to the
question of his mortality by acknowledging the fact that
human life is finite. A neurotic might answer “no” and pro-
test for the rest of his life, trying to invent a cure for death.
But in our psyche, it cannot be that you are both mortal
and not in the biological sense.
Believing in the existence of two mutually exclusive things
at the same time can drive one crazy (try, for example, to
imagine speech based on the principle that anything can
be said, anything, without any rules) and dissolve him in
psychosis, but the pervert does not want to be dissolved
into it (although he always hears its voice). He wants to
preserve his self-consciousness. To do this, the pervert
has to invent his own way: “I know pretty well but still...”
In order to break and preserve the Law, he introduces an
extra signifier, an extra condition. It plays the same role
as a fetish. An example: red shoes for the fetishist, without
which he cannot initiate sexual intercourse. In order to be
able to perform the sexual contact, the fetishist must have
his or her partner wear red shoes. The fetishist can put
the shoes on or he can take them away, he is the master
of the situation.
A pedophile is well aware that one must not rape chil-
dren. He understands that irreparable harm will be done
to the child: information about this is freely available, the
damage is not even to be questioned. But his desire is
stronger, and he already knows that he will break this
law. It is only a matter of preserving his psyche when he
goes beyond the limits of what is permissible. Then the
element of “I know very well that children must not be
raped, it will harm the child and is forbidden by law” is
preserved (while actually being violated) by introducing
the condition “the child himself seduced me, he is vicious
and has drawn me into his depraved acts: I know very
well that it is prohibited to rape children, but it is not me
who rapes, it is the depraved child: he wants it, he se-
duces me, and I am only an object, the tool of his lust in
his own hands.”
How does a pervert think?
Since the world is on a delusional course, we must adopt
a delusional standpoint towards the world 7
J. Baudrillard
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A perverse attitude towards the Law is demonstrated by
the following propaganda statement: “Russia has never
started a single war; war is unacceptable, our country
always stands for peace (more so than any other coun-
try - we’re an exceptionally peaceful country, the ex-
ample for everyone), it was for the sake of peace that
we started the war the special military operation against
the Nazis on the territory of Ukraine.” Like a pedophile,
a Putin-format Nazi knows full well that peaceful coun-
tries do not start wars, because war is unacceptable. This
position is supported by history, archives, memoirs, liter-
ature, films, journalism, and common sense. But on the
other side there is a dark desire, coming from the depths
of the psyche, to destroy homes, to kill and rape (even
if not with one's own hands). It is already clear that it
will not be possible to obey to the law, so the pervert
introduces a new signifier: “Nazis”. This is how they can
ensure a semblance of the Law: “We, the government of
the most peaceful country on the planet, know very well
that war is unjustifiable, but the Nazis in the Ukrainian
government forced us to denazify Ukraine / the people
of Ukraine asked us to denazify their country/ “The Im-
mortal Regiment” forced us...
That purpose (to preserve the semblance of the Law, thus
to protecting the psyche from chaos) is also served by
“NATO's aggression”, and “they were preparing an at-
tack against our territory...”, and the nuclear bomb that
Ukrainians were preparing to invent, and the biolabs. In
the aforementioned Meduza's study, someone replied
to the question “Did Russia attack Ukraine?” by saying:
“No. I mean yes, but we weren't the first to attack it.” Let
us reconstruct the perverse thought process: “I know very
well that it is not justifiable to attack another country (but
I really want to attack, which means that) it was NATO
(we can insert anything here) that was preparing an at-
tack, so therefore we were not the ones who attacked,
we were not the first ones”. The proofs that NATO etc.
are mere psychological tricks are as follows: NATO's
aggression or biolabs are actually not taken into ac-
count in Russia’s military plans in any way; there are no
roadmaps or scientific research into denazification (the
country is rather big, so mobile crematoria alone will not
help), and no one is working on a vaccine against the
“virus that infects only Russians”.
Thus, a perverse propaganda statement consists of 3 ba-
sic elements: The Law, the violation of the Law (behind
which is desire), and the introduced signifier (which we
can recognize because it is the performative (new) in the
statement). If you remove the Law and the performative,
you can understand what the desire of the pervert is. For
example: “Where have you been all these eight years?”
The Law is omitted here, but it is clear that it is implied
that “I am well aware that you mustn’t bomb civilians.”
The new signifier is “criminal indifference towards the
suffering of the Donbass,” which allows one to violate
the Law – “to bomb civilians.” Of course, “criminal in-
difference” is from the same realm as the child who has
seduced the pedophile, from the realm of the Imaginary.
What is the pervert's desire? To bomb peaceful homes.
Moreover, the introduction of the signifier is not caused
by moral hesitations: the law has already been broken –
it is only a matter of preserving the psyche.
It follows that if we remove the subterfuge and the Law
from a statement about the war (for example, such state-
ments as “NATO was preparing to attack” or “NATO
fights with the hands of Ukrainians”), then we are left
with the usual, well-known fascist desire, the well-
known perversion – the desire to carry out violence,
engage in sadism. Unfortunately, this is also confirmed
by the non-verbal messages of the Nazis: “the Russian
world” is no longer associated with anything but murder
and destruction.
The idea that sadism is the basis of Nazism/Fascism is
not something unexpected. It was thoroughly explored
by Erich Fromm and Pier Paolo Pasolini, whose Salò, or
the 120 Days of Sodom movie is physically impossi-
ble to watch, because it accurately shows the transgres-
sive, perverse, sadistic essence of fascism, alien to the
psyche of the ordinary person in ordinary times.

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Consequences of
discarding the Law
The way the subject replies to the question about the
Law determines whether or not subjectivation will occur,
whether he will say “I” about himself. The neurotic (this is
what we call the “normal” person, compassionate and
guilt-ridden) accepts limitations, the Father's Law, he sep-
arates himself from his mother, from jouissance, and so he
becomes an actor, thinks himself an actor, acquires the
“I”. The psychotic remains immersed, unseparated. Say-
ing both “yes” and “no” to the Law, the pervert is stuck
in-between. He does not separate himself from jouis-
sance11
completely, but he does not go into a full fusion
with his mother, into psychosis.
Lacan thought that the perverse structure forms because
of the mother being too strong or the father, who was
supposed to represent the Law, the restrictions, being too
weak. Otto Kernberg divided perverts into two groups
(depending on the depth of their immersion into the per-
version) and believed that the milder form was caused by
a strong castration anxiety12
and the more severe form -
by separation anxiety13
.
As a consequence of not accepting castration, not being
separated from his mother, the pervert's way of dealing
with the Law has special consequences for his psyche.
The pervert has self-awareness, he is able to use speech,
but the pervert has no “I”, rather he thinks of “me” (moi),
being stuck at the narcissistic stage. At the narcissistic
stage only the quantitative characteristics of “more/less”
are understood, while the qualitative ones remain inac-
cessible, such as “possession/belonging”.
Since we can only understand the subjectivity of others
by analogy and in the presence of our own subjectiv-
ity, the pervert perceives those around him as objects.
The pervert does not completely detach himself from the
infantile unity with his mother, part of him stays in jouis-
sance, in psychosis. The pervert thinks of himself as the
tool of enjoyment of the Other, he serves the jouissance
of his mother (the psychic image of the mother, the moth-
er's voice in his head).
Since the pervert is an object, he has no sense of guilt
and will not regret his actions. Nor can he look for the
causes of his problems within himself, as he is the tool of
the Other's will; he will only look for them in the outside
world. Because of this, the pervert has no access to feel-
ings such as sadness, love, or empathy; his two strongest
feelings are rage and the desire to possess.
The pervert's “I” is fragile; he is in constant danger of slip-
ping into psychosis, he has a lot of anxiety, his picture of
the world is fragmented. The pervert projects his inner
crisis onto the outside world, his own ugliness onto the
ugliness of others; he judges everyone by his own stand-
ards, therefore, for example, he will never recognize
others' good intentions (because there are none in him),
rather, he will look for some hidden motives.
I will illustrate some points with an example from the
popular TV series Dexter. The protagonist, Dexter, knows
very well that it is forbidden to kill any people. But, unfor-
tunately, such a prohibition does not suit him: he craves to
kill, he cannot help killing. If you break the Law and sink
into a bloody feast (and you are drawn there), you may
not come back to yourself. Realizing that Dexter can-
not not break the existing Law, his stepfather introduces
an additional signifier that allows him to get away with
breaking the Law: “It’s forbidden to kill anyone, but it’s
forbidden to kill serial murderers a little less.” Instead of
a Law that cannot be followed, Dexter's father gives him
a new one. This new Law is a very strict one: to compen-
sate for the discarding of the old Law, Dexter must gather
evidence and think through the murder down to the last
detail before killing. As long as Dexter is following this
Law, he is fine with his psyche, his life, and the Dark Pas-
senger.
Dexter does not understand those around him; he has
to emulate his personality, create it by observing ordi-
nary people. He does not have any character traits that
haven’t been formed by his desire to kill. But if we try to
characterize Dexter the killer, it turns out that it is not he
who kills, but the Dark Passenger (the voice in his head,
prompting him to kill). What is Dexter himself? The ob-
ject of the Other's jouissance, which for the pervert is the
frightening, haunting Dark Passenger. Dexter does not
think of himself as an actor, he has no desires of his own,
and Dexter himself finds himself constantly captured in
the other character's field of desire.
Dexter's whole essence is that he thinks of himself as an
object. Dexter is not an actor with his own desire, he is
the object of the jouissance of the Other, the Dark Pas-
senger. Dexter hates the Dark Passenger and dreams of
getting rid of him. But what will be left then? This is gen-
erally true of any sadistic pervert: because of his fragile
identity, he needs other people, yet he tries to destroy
them, at least verbally.

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Because the pervert remains in the narcissistic stage, he
is prone to paranoia and magical thinking. The pervert is
not inclined to analyze phenomena or things; he glides
over the surface. It is akin to Narcissus looking at his re-
flection in a lake: he sees no fish under the water, no
rocks, no underwater plants, only himself. Even if some-
thing appears in his field of vision, he sees it only through
his reflection.
If there is no reflection, analysis, study, then one patch-
es the holes in their understanding of the world with
fantasy, with delusion. For example, a person does not
understand why her acquaintance has died of COVID,
they are disturbed by it, but also too upset to search for
scientific materials, or simply have no habit of making a
cognitive effort.
Thus they get to an article about “the damned 5G towers”
and the golden billion conspiracy. Since the delusion
has no solid foundation – scientific, traditional, religious,
social, - it can neither be proved nor disproved, the gold-
en billion begins to evolve, to diverge, taking very intri-
cate forms, until the conspiracist starts being pursued by
Rothschild, Soros or Reptiloids.
Because of the constant patching of holes with the Imag-
inary in the psychic reality of the pervert, the principle of
reality has been lost.
Being confronted with Putin's propaganda it's often like
talking to children playing tea party with empty cups:
“Let's dress some random dude in a robot costume and
say it's a real robot,” “let's kill unarmed residents and then
say it wasn't us,” etc.
A loss of the reality principle leads to an inadequate as-
sessment of the situation. The constant use of the principle
“if things are not as we like, let's just pretend that things
are as we like” has already led to many negative conse-
quences for Putin's power.
Since the pervert is incapable of a true analysis, a quick
and easy way for him to explain something is to resort
to magical thinking. Numerology, shamans, kissing relics,
incantations and potions – all of those becomes part of
their psyche.
Magical thinking sometimes helps the fragile self of the
pervert to feel significant, which can even make him be-
lieve that he is fulfilling a certain mission, that he is not
a profane sadist, but a sacred one, such as Alexander
Dugin.
The pervert’s
speech: jouissance,
transgression and
foreclosure
The pervert's speech reflects the features of his mental
structure: jouissance, transgression, and non-rejection/
non-acceptance of the Law, all of which give the pervert
away.
Perverse speech, unlike psychotic speech, is linguistically
correct. However, it is still necessary to overcome several
discomforting perception effects at once. The first effect
is cringe. For example, when you’re watching speeches
of Putin-Lavrov-Simonyan-Skabeeva-Solovyov, occa-
sionally there’s something peeping out at you that makes
you ashamed, as if you’ve witnessed something obscene.
Indeed, something obscene has happened: the pervert
enjoys his speech, it is sexualized for him.
This exhibitionism can explain some illogical public
screw-ups. The latest is Russia’s foreign minister's state-
ment that Hitler was a Jew, that Jews are the most virulent
anti-Semites, and therefore that the Holocaust was or-
ganized by Jews themselves. Only an extremely igno-
rant person could have made an accidental slip of the
tongue about such a sensitive issue. So I suppose the
thing is that on the contrary, being aware of the sensitiv-
ity of the subject, the foreign minister could not resist try-
ing to destroy his interlocutors. The pervert cannot help
but proclaim his jouissance. He, like a park exhibitionist,
cannot reach the end of the alley without opening his
cloak to unsuspecting strangers. In the Meduza's article
already mentioned, the journalist who conducted the
survey noted that strange pleasure, the trance that ac-
companies propaganda talking points. This is what jou-
issance looks like. Talking about “the special operation”
is like talking about the first kiss: both embarrassing and
impossible to stop.
The second effect is affect, the inexplicably strong emo-
tions of a wide spectrum. Most people start to shake with
anger and hatred on hearing Putin's propaganda. They
are agitated both by the wording and the tone, as well
as the serious look with which the utter absurdities are
pronounced: “Russia attacked to help Ukraine, suffering
from the Nazis,” “Had we not attacked, they would have
attacked us,” “Where have you been all these 8 years?”

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The neurotic thinks of a pervert as a person just like him-
self, and then the question arises: how can one be so im-
moral, a cynic, an unscrupulous liar, to say such absurd,
insolent, untrue things? However, projecting one's own
psychic reality onto a pervert is wrong: we are not alike
at all, we’re each other’s opposites, we do not under-
stand them, nor do they understand us.
The goal of the pervert's statement is to destroy the psy-
che of the interlocutor. By producing delusional versions,
combining mutually exclusive positions, challenging the
obvious, the pervert wants to de-objectify, to make one
doubt the obvious, to depersonalize. It is not only the
interlocutor that he rapes, but also the language itself: he
wants to transgress it.
Fascist propaganda is catered to by the Newspeak. All
these seemingly meaningless and ridiculous “pops14
”
“liberation”, “special operation”, “denazification” are, on
the one hand, the pervert’s attempts to rape language.
On the other hand, it’s his technique of teaching perverse
thinking to those around them, of infecting them with per-
version. Part of the desubjectivation strategy lies in the
pervert’s not listening to the replies. He is going to talk,
declare, give ultimatums, rape - and experience jouis-
sance.
Transgression
A pervert transgresses the Law, but in place of the old
Law he establishes his own one, which Baudrillard would
refer to as “a rule”. What kind of Law can a pervert es-
tablish? The pervert makes it his law to transgress, that is,
he makes transgression his law. Moreover, perverts start
using transgression left, right and center for their own
purposes.
It is common for perverts to violate the laws of logic. They
especially dislike the “Russell's teapot” or the principle of
Roman law that has become the basis for the presump-
tion of innocence: “The burden of proof lies on the per-
son making a claim, not on the one who disproves it.”
Putin's politicians demand: “prove that you don't have
something whose presence has never been observed,”
“prove that you weren’t going to attack if you weren’t go-
ing to and didn't attack,” “explain your absence where
you couldn't get to because we were there,” or “we in-
vented a ‘chaos management theory’ for you, published
it in our magazines, discussed it, actively use it ourselves,
and now you must prove that you do not rule the world
according to this theory.”
The attack against the principle of logic, the principle of
Roman law which became the basis for the presumption
of innocence is an attack against the principle of law
itself. Both court trials without the presumption of inno-
cence and discussions without “he who makes claims
must prove them” would lose solid ground, turn into ex-
changes of paranoid delusion.
The pervert invites the opponent either to admit the
impossibility to answer the claim, which would be the
destruction of the opponent, or to join him on the ride
from the Symbolic to the Imaginary, to learn to think like
a pervert. And since you have abandoned the old Law, it
is time to adopt the new order – Neuordnung.

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The law in Russia is undoubtedly perverse and is built on
the same principle of foreclosure. Take the Navalny case
as an example. When the authorities needed to impris-
on him, they chose violation of probation as the reason,
which was proven to be legally invalid.
It begs the question: when you have such a repressive
machine, why even bother to draw up charges, and
even look for a ridiculous, petty excuse? You could have
just put him in jail, and who would then be able to do
anything about it? Or you could charge him with major
financial fraud, attempted murder, and treason, to jail
him for sure and for a long time?
It wouldn’t work completely without some legal grounds.
The pervert perceives the world around him fragmentari-
ly and exclusively through the prism of his own psychic
reality. If, because of the partially collapsed subjectiva-
tion, the Other (as the principle of the existence of oth-
erness) is seen only as someone who persecutes, forces
to experience jouissance, then the pervert applies this
vision to relations with other people or countries (“no
one understands us,” “everyone wants to bring us to our
knees,” “there is Russophobia everywhere”).
The pervert knows that complete rejection of the Law
could make one fall into psychosis, which means that
society, too, by rejecting the Law, may drift into chaos.
Let us retrace the perverse chain of reasoning: the per-
vert knows full well that an innocent man should not be
imprisoned and Navalny has not broken any laws. How-
ever, there’s a strong desire to put him away (for prag-
matic reasons, and because Navalny is guilty of another
thing that is much more important for the Nazi).
This conflict is resolved by introducing the signifier “It was
Navalny himself who provoked the authorities to put him
in jail, brazenly violating probation in the case of Yves
Rocher.”
The pettiness of the reason here is a clue for us. If the rea-
son is trivial and the punishment is not trivial, then it is not
about the trial, but about something else: it is about the
triumph of the pervert, who has succeeded in destroying
the enemy – and destroying in a perverse manner. The
pettiness of the reason is the ciphered evidence of the
jouissance that peeps at us, a kind of pervert’s signature
who cannot conceal his perverse transgressive nature. It
is a ciphered invitation to partake in jouissance, an invi-
tation to an orgy. It is an invitation received only by those
who hear the call of violence and know transgression by
sight. Just like de Sade's libertines, the pervert in pow-
er demands that everyone participate in his jouissance:
every henchman of Nazism must attend the transgressive
event with a serious face, pretending that there is no jou-
issance here, that all those present are servants of the
Law, and that Navalny's guilt is huge, undeniable, and
the sentence is just.
The perversion of law in Russia can also be illustrated
by its selective application. A law is a law only when it
is one for all, and the punishment for breaking it is inev-
itable, otherwise it is the pervert’s Law, a rule. Everyone
understands that the penalties for breaking the law in Pu-
tin's society are not uniformly applied, they depend on
many factors: loyalty, proximity to power, popularity, ma-
terial and social status, willingness to engage in corrupt
schemes, and so on. Thus, the only Law is the perversion
of the Law. Those who try to follow the Law in its original
sense are more likely to be punished, because the Law,
as we have already seen, is only needed for perverts to
break it.
Everyone knows the expression “The severity of Russian
laws is mitigated by the fact that obeying them is op-
tional.” It would seem that this is also a manifestation of
perversion: “sometimes I choose to follow the law, some-
times I choose to not follow it”. The sadistic pervert, how-
ever, will strictly follow the rule, and will also make sure
that others do the same.
Pervert and the Law, pervert and
the perverse Law
- Which law would you break,
if you were allowed to break any law for one day?
- I wouldn’t break any, since it would be legal.
A meme

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The pervert as an object, as a tool of desire of the one
behind the Law becomes a perfect performer of criminal
orders or a soulless bureaucracy. He has no guilt: he was
simply following orders.
It is obvious that the subject will not have to agonize be-
tween following a criminal order and saving the life of a
civilian, whom he also does not view as an actor. How-
ever, even if his commanders don’t order him to commit
atrocities every time, the pervert will still imagine they
would want it – and will commit the atrocities.
That is, where a very bad person, but not a sadist, would
be too lazy to do evil without need (for example, when
he’s tired or fed up with it), a sadist will not be too lazy
to do it.
Evading or refusing to follow the perverse Law may not
be a perversion, but a neurotic escape from a desire of
the Other. The neurotic doesn’t want to turn into a pervert,
i.e. to allow repressed urges to manifest. In such a case,
giving up the perverse Law is a way of preserving one's
neurotic psyche.
The Collective Other
of the “Russian World”
If a pervert believes themselves to be the object of The
Other's jouissance, this makes us wonder how a Pu-
tin-style Nazi envisages the said Other.
The first key to understanding the secret of Putin's pow-
er's success was provided by Sergei Dorenko, a famous
Russian journalist and political consultant, in an interview
to Yuri Dud. In a notorious scene from “Cargo 200” the
main character - a girl, who embodies Russia, – is raped
next to her dead fiancee's body. According to Dorenko,
Putin is seen by the Russian collective conscience as a
little soldier protecting the girl from violence or taking
revenge for the violence already committed (the no-
tion reflected in the slogan “raising Russia back from its
knees”). The fact that the event appears to be lost in time
(is the soldier a protector or an avenger?) only stresses
its phantasmic nature, as noone has ever “raped” or in-
tended to “rape” Russia.
The formation of the compromising perversion takes place
within the Oedipal framework, but the pervert's Father is
not the father that prohibits incest and insists on his entitle-
ment to Mother. Sooner, it is the one referred to by Lacan
as “a version of father” (“père-version”) - the one who
suggests that they should rape mother together.15
It's only logical, therefore, that in the absence of actual
rapists the only one who is willing and able to commit
rape is the protector. That is, “to protect” to a pervert
means “to rape” - and indeed, the perverse ruler will of-
ten treat its own country more viciously than the enemy
countries, neither having any pity of their own compatri-
ots, nor sparing his country's resources.
A pervert sees The Other through his own reflection:
he projects16
his desire to “rape” onto other countries,
the desire acquiring a certain erotomanic17
undertone:
everyone wants to rape Russia (“force Russia onto its
knees”). Later on, the phantasm of raping ( fantasme
de viol) is filled by The Imaginary. This gives rise to the
notion of “the treacherous West”, which had promised
Heaven, but took away Greatness. The same notion is
also the basis of another manifestation of the afore-
mentioned phantasm: “The Chaos Management Theo-
ry”, propagated by another, more intelligent, tier of Na-
zis. In a nutshell, the theory maintains that the Russian
Federation borders on the failed state of Ukraine, where
the USA use certain political technologies to stoke the
fire of “maidans” (revolutions), with the aim of spreading
chaos in order to harm Russia. That said, this “rape” still
appears to be a mere pervert's trick, which is supposed
to justify their own unstoppable desire to rape – that is,
“to protect” - Russia; hence the image of Russia raped
in the past or intended to be raped in the future: “I am
well aware that rape is never justifiable; yet, since Russia
has been raped, or rape is intended upon it, I proclaim
myself the weapon of vengeance.”
According to K. Jung, the archetype of Wotan the God
of War woke up in the Nazi Germany. If we try to elab-
orate on the idea of the collective “voice” in the heads of
Nazis, what kind of voice could it be, bearing in mind
the frightening Other? As a rule, the archetype of the
Summoning Motherland appears in times of war. Its most
honest embodiment is the monument of Motherland in
Volgograd: the robust, ferocious woman, her mouth open,
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An open mouth, often with the tongue stuck out, is a uni-
versal symbol of aggression and even aggressive sexual
energy in such cultures as Ancient Hindu, Ancient Greeks,
or Maya. Such is the depiction of Gorgon the Medusa
and Kali, an Indian goddess, one of the manifestations of
Parvati, Shiva's wife. Parvati is a tender and caring wife,
while Kali is the goddess of infinite cosmic power, death
and destruction, depicted atop of enemies' corpses, with
her mouth open, wearing a necklace made of chopped
off heads,
Similarly to the two avatars of one deity, Kali and Pravati,
Russian archetypal mother has two manifestations: Rus-
sia the Mom – in times of peace, - and the blood-lust-
ing, children-sacrificing Mother Russia – in times of war.
However, Mother Russia represents an archetype of the
just war of liberation, making it necessary for the sadist
war of aggression and expansion to rely on another ar-
chetype.
The perversion inverted and contorted the archetype of
Mother Russia. A strong, young woman was replaced
by a feeble, senile one, unable to raise a sword, thus
holding the red banner instead. In place of Mother Rus-
sia, Putin's propagandists substituted a Ukrainian granny,
who came out to greet Ukrainian soldiers with a red flag
as she had mistaken them for the Russian army. She later
on rejected the ideological role ascribed to her altogeth-
er. Yet, the image went viral and began to symbolize Rus-
sian-Ukrainian war. What does it allude to?
The Red Banner is the flag of the country that ceased
to exist long ago. It is neither the flag of Russia, nor is
it the flag of Ukraine – but it belonged to both of them
over 30 years back. Communism cannot be considered
the ideology the Russian Federation is fighting for, either:
in no way is Putin's ideology connected to communism
or socialism. Therefore, the red flag is merely another
representation of the perversion, as it embodies the es-
sence of the pretext for the Russian attack as part of the
perverse understanding of Law: “The Russian Federation
is a peaceful country, but the Nazis attacked the Red
Banner – the symbol of our glorious past (the past we
had rejected in fact), therefore – we are to defend it”.
The Red Banner, which exists and is non-existent at the
same time, is the phallus, acknowledged and at the
same time denied by a pervert. It appears that among
all additional signifiers, the banner of a non-existent
country, bearing the ideology not shared by the aggres-
sor, is the clearest indicator of the imaginary character of
all perverse excuses for aggression.
The character that the Ukrainian granny alludes to is
easy to identify. In the collective conscience, there are
two characters of transgressive nature: the Death with
the Scythe and Baba Yaga (the Russian folklore witch).
Both archetypes ore on the border of Life and Death,
both impersonate the transition to a qualitatively different
state. Baba Yaha helps the Protagonist to undergo initi-
ation and enter the adulthood, while The Death with the
Scythe aids in transitioning from the living state to death.
It is only symbolic then that these people, who are not
ashamed of being labeled zombies, chose Baba Yaga
and Death with the Schythe to represent their Mother-
land (Mother Russia).
Thus, the granny with the red flag became the collective
Russian Wotan, her distant relative being the blood-lusty
Motherland, in turn, related to the goddesses of war
(Kali, Athena, Minerva etc), who are all the reflections
of the perverts' phallic mothers. It is their desires that the
sadists seek to satisfy by committing rape initially intend-
ed for their mothers.

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Freedom to commit
violence
as the core of Putin-style
Nazism

21
Putin's propaganda adherents will go on and on about
the clash of values, the collision of civilizations: the West
versus the so-called “Russian World”. It is Russia that they
claim to be the last refuge of freedom. We could dismiss
the claim as yet another instance of propagandist lies, and
question the existence of any set of values behind the said
clash: perhaps, while fighting for the “values” of the Rus-
sian world they are literally fighting for the valuables, and
that is simply an euphemism for marauding?
However, they are not alone in raising the issue. Accord-
ing to psychoanalyst S. Benvenutto, the humanity is now
faced with the war of values, whose outcome will deter-
mine the way we see freedom and politics. A liberal will
normally have difficulty understanding what for, and es-
pecially who with, the “Russian world” is fighting. To an
outside observer, it will appear that Putin's supporters are
fighting for a lack of freedom, as what liberty can there be
in a society where the freedom of speech is suppressed,
free elections are non-existent, anyone could be subject
to repressions and a common person has very few, if any,
possibilities to defend oneself in court. The conclusion is
thus often made that the “enigmatic Russian soul” seeks to
die for the right to remain enslaved.
Yet, once we manage to resist the temptation to project
our own values onto Putin's propaganda, it becomes clear
that on this particular occasion the propagandists did tell
the truth: there's a certain freedom in the “Russian world”.
Besides, and even more surprisingly, they have a point in
claiming that this freedom does not exist in the West: it,
indeed, is not one of the celebrated Western freedoms.
Generally speaking, the mindset of a westerner of today
is hard for a “Russian world” adherent to grasp. Quite
recently, political correctness has become the Other, the
Normality, the voice in the head – suggesting, soliciting
and punishing. For the sake of convenience, we will some-
times be using the term Normality instead of The Other (fol-
lowing S. Žižek's example).
Political correctness is based upon the following princi-
ple: “Violence is never justifiable. Violence towards the
vulnerable is absolutely unjustifiable; the weaker should
have the advantage; it is shameful to boast privileges.”
In a nutshell, “the weaker has the upper hand”. In order
not to come across as a rapist, a toxic person, a boom-
er, one has to take this maxima into consideration all the
time. You must obtain conscious agreement to have sex;
sex must not humiliate any of the partners; physical abuse
is puS. Žižeknishable (think Will Smith incident at the latest
Oscar ceremony); arguments are to be resolved in court
rather than by a fight or through bribery. On top of that,
one cannot get away with beating up a child, raping their
wife or a casual girl, paternally pinching their secretary's
buttock or battering a homosexual. The punishment will go
way beyond the friendly telling-off by the local precinct
(“You needn't have left those bruises, dude: she is to go
to work tomorrow after all”)... What's worse, one cannot
write homophobic or sexists posts or openly express such
views; even the innocent referring to someone as fat or
ugly is shamed.
Apparently, for the first time in the entire history of human-
kind a deficit of possibilities for destructive violence
has been created in a society. An average European
is drastically limited in their capacity to express violent, sa-
distic urges. While some time ago it used to be possible
to be verbally aggressive at least, in this day and age this
type of abuse is punishable, too, at three levels: legally
(by a court verdict), by the society (the cancel culture has
invented a way of penalizing deeds not yet punishable by
law), and at the personal level (remorse and guilt).
Until very recently, one could get away with an insult; even
if a fine was imposed, they still could enjoy the society's
approval; if the worst came to the worst, rejected by the
society and penalized by law, they could still see them-
selves as bravehearts... Nowadays, there are no back
doors. Even if you are not fined – you will not be welcome
among decent people. Even if noone knows about your
misdemeanor – your conscience will be eating you. One
can stand up against rule and society – but little could be
done about one's own conscience. One may now express
their sadistic urges in such a way as not to hurt anyone's
feelings, be it at work, at home or in creativity. A sadist's
only option to satisfy their lust is to attack Nazis, racists,
sexists, ageists, transphobes – you name it. against rule
and society – but little could be done about one's own
conscience. One may now express their sadistic urges in
such a way as not to hurt anyone's feelings, be it at work,
at home or in creativity. A sadist's only option to satisfy their
lust is to attack Nazis, racists, sexists, ageists, transphobes
– you name it. One indicator of the acute deficit of violent
manifestations is the way people are constantly looking for
new, insignificant pretexts that would allow to condemn
offenders without being “canceled”, as well as the dispro-
portionate amount of aggression directed at perpetrators.
The great fight for the Russian World's
values: what on earth are they fighting for?

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Not only is the non-toxic person supposed to obey Law –
but also they are to be knowledgeable about the already
vast (and counting) number of rules. One is to know pre-
cisely how to address people of various gender identities,
to never engage in cultural expropriation, green-washing,
black-washing – the list goes on. That is, political correct-
ness has made sadists repress other sadists, thus narrowing
the already small window of opportunities for sadism.
It is widely believed that Russian soldiers are who they are
due to their narrow outlook: most have never traveled out-
side their region (oblast), have never seen either the Eiffel
Tower or even a washing machine. Yet, putin's keenest ad-
herents have not only been to Europe: they have owned
real estate there, they have been accepted in the society.
That said, there are no reasons to question the sincerity of
nazist convictions of Lavrov, Soloviov, or Simonian. It is
therefore unimportant whether a pro-Putin Nazi has ever
traveled to Europe or has learned about it from a TV show:
they have a clear reason to despise the West: white
males, the most phallic part of the western society,
have voluntarily waived their privilege to abuse
the vulnerable. This situation turned out very traumatic
for Russians as it increased their castration anxiety, which
can be seen in the popular, although clearly delusional,
phenomenon: Russian citizens try to “protect” western peo-
ple in Russian social networks, “fighting against” the can-
cellation culture in their own, patriarchal country, where
white men's privileges could potentially be attacked by
scarce feminists, rare leftists and LGBTK activists, and
where cancellation culture is simply non-existent, the said
activists focusing on other, more urgent, tasks.
For an adherent of the “Rissian World”, values of the West
are hard to understand, partcularly unfathomable being
western freedom, which does not allow the battery of vul-
nerable relatives (“rotting of family values”), taking away
a conscript's phone (the notorious hazing in the Russian
army), slapping or insulting a girl passing by, humiliating
people performing “emotional” duties – waiters and wait-
resses, flight attendants, salespeople. To them, a western
male is a castrate, tied up by rules and regulations, and
restricted by the cancellation culture on top of that. It is then
only natural that the constant subject of Putin's propagan-
dists' attacks is the western political correctness – its abso-
lute antipode. The way they attack the phenomenon that
has no relation to their own country, the way they stand
up for Joanne Rowling all clearly show that this culture is
seen as a personal insult. For an adherent of the “Rissian
World”, values of the West are hard to understand, part-
cularly unfathomable being western freedom, which does
not allow the battery of vulnerable relatives (“rotting of
family values”), taking away a conscript's phone (the no-
torious hazing in the Russian army), slapping or insulting a
girl passing by, humiliating people performing “emotional”
duties – waiters and waitresses, flight attendants, sales-
people. To them, a western male is a castrate, tied up by
rules and regulations, and restricted by the cancellation
culture on top of that. It is then only natural that the con-
stant subject of Putin's propagandists' attacks is the west-
ern political correctness – its absolute antipode. The way
they attack the phenomenon that has no relation to their
own country, the way they stand up for Joanne Rowling
all clearly show that this culture is seen as a personal insult.
In essence, political correctness is collective guilt, experi-
enced by the descendants of colonizers and plantators. A
pervert cannot experience personal guilt due to their half-
failed subjectivation; nor can they have the historical guilt,
as their ancestors never sold slaves or looted ancient stat-
ues from Africa and the Near East – they were peasants,
whipped in the stable, (an old Russian saying goes: “One
battered lad is worth two unbattered”. Or, it was their an-
cestors that whipped their servants; in this case, they were
executed in 1918 by a comrade commissar – one of those
whipped in the stable.
It is commonly stated by Europeans at international con-
ferences that noone is able to understand Putin's politicians.
While it is quite easy to realize that the clue here is re-
lated to perverse psyches, a neurotic will suppress such
an explanation as they would then have to recognize that
nations are different – which is not welcomed by political
correctness. The suppressed will later on transform into ru-
mors about pedophilia and a consensus about “the enig-
matic Russian soul”. However, there are no such enigmas
that would not be related to the processes taking place
in Europe.
A pro-Putin pervert, whose identity is unclear, will try to
stitch it up, like Frankenstein's monster, from bits copied
from other people and appropriated. Yet, as the depth of
a neurotic's psychic processes remains obscure to them,
and their conclusions are thus superficial, the elements
copied and appropriated are either superficious, or mir-
rored from the perverse sadist him/herself. The mirror will
reflect a fragmented, paranoid inner world, full of anxiety
and blood lust. Beholding their own reflection, a pervert
will see the “Theory of chaos management”: a constant
threat to be swallowed by the psychotic abyss, and The
Other, trying to pull them into the abyss; the perceived ag-
gression and “conspiracies” of other countries are in fact
his own aggression, their Russophobia is their own para-
noia. A pervert is unable to discern others' noble intentions
or winged sentiments: well, the terms seem familiar to them;
yet, having never experienced the feelings, they cannot
admit them in others. Any actions beyond their understand-
ing will therefore be attributed to self-interest or a conspir-

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acy. It is now clear enough why such Other - the reflection
of the sadist themselves - deserves to be destroyed.
Based on the above, the identity of a pervert cannot have
any peculiar features. This identity consists of that of a
pervert-sadist, plus what they have copied. The
formula works pretty well with regard to the society as a
whole. The culture of the Russian Federation at the moment
consists of: 1. trends initiated a while ago and merely ex-
ploited since, 2. perversion, 3. certain elements a pervert
copied like a child would copy a complicated picture, 4.
elements passed through the prism of the pervert's under-
standing. The processes and products of the above are
often called cargo-cults.
For instance, the so-called democracy in the Russian
Federation manifests itself in the following performance:
elections are announced, the members of the counting
commissions are gathered on the voting premises, peo-
ple come and fill in the ballots, protocols are issued. To a
pervert, though, the possibility to elect power or the right
to representation are of no value, since they are not an
actor. All a pervert values is rule and control. Their psyche
does not even contain any desire for democracy, which
makes them assume that others don't need it either, the
whole world is hypocritical and all the nations need is to
show off, avoid becoming an outlaw, or escape the risk of
being sanctioned, etc. A pervert in power will thus come
to a conclusion that democracy means that the necessary
person is “elected”; that said, comissions, ballots, ballot
boxes and voting booths, as well as incessant talks about
democracy and free elections will somehow justify the
process.
To the West, such cargo-elections are the outright viola-
tion of human rights, accompanied by lies about freedom.
Through the prism of their psyche, a neurotic assumes that
Putin's civil servants are actors like themselves, cynically
defrauding their people and themselves. Putin's officials
appreciate that the West is outraged - yet they cannot
grasp the nature of this outrage (indeed, how can democ-
racy and human rights bear any value to anyone?) They
will then try to bridge the gaps of their understanding by
delusions and phantasms, which leads them to assume that
the only real reason for the said negative feedback is a
hatred of Russia and a desire to harm it. Putin's functionar-
ies even believe themselves to be aware of the ways this
harm will be caused: it's by rocking the boat (i.e., “manag-
ing chaos”) with the help of organizing orange revolutions.
The only similarity between the Western spicy political de-
bate show and the format adopted by the Russian TV is
the presence of many people on stage. Its core idea – that
speakers of all views must be given the floor – has not
been understood. A politician with the Putin-format nazist
mindset will be certain that western political shows are as
staged as they are in Russia, that their participants read
off the prepared scripts, and only pronounce what they
are allowed to, so the West's talks about the freedom of
speech and pluralism are mere hypocrisies intended to
downgrade Russia.
It might appear that a well thought-out, outrageously
cynical act of deception is taking place in the studios of
Soloviev, Kiseliov, Simonyan and their kind. The perverts,
however, see no deceit: they cannot imagine any other
course of events. They see no point in giving the floor to
the opposition on a state chanel. What is it for? “Don't you
mention pluralism: we had it in the 90-ies. Thanks, but no
thanks. You think watching a bunch of people reading off
the same lines is boring? Well – we'll make them behave
like madmen to entertain the audience”.
Perverts are only able to scratch the surface of things,
which is why they only manage to imitate the outer layer.
This can, for example, be seen in how Simonyan suggest-
ed expropriating IKEA's property in order to create a Rus-
sian domestic IKEA. The lady sincerely believes that ware-
houses and shops are what IKEA is all about. This principle
applies, in fact, to anything produced by Putin's regime:
politicians (there aren't any – they are all civil servants),
the Church, the secular society, the mass media, the social
policies – all are but hollow imitations of the facade, like
Alyosha the robot.
One of the most horrible examples of such perverse con-
structs is the army. While perverts are well aware of what
the army should be like and have seen other armies, the
whole idea comes down to parades. It is beyond a per-
vert how to work with the myth of the heroic soldier, why
raise and maintain the morale, why curb marauding and
discourage hazing, why show respect of the fallen...Once
such a soldier finds himself in settings legalizing perver-
sion and encouraging moral values of the Pol Pot's army,
it won't be long before he adopts the values as his own.
Perverts see no point in deterring looting as soldiers ben-
efit from it, which is to make them enthusiastic. To them,
patriotism or a desire to protect relatives are not sufficient
reasons to risk their lives, while illicit enrichment is. Since a
pervert is unable to assess personal qualities and doesn't
consider others to be actors, when selecting staff he never
takes any immanent characteristics, such as experience,
education, intelligence, talent etc, into consideration, re-
lying instead on security (that is, loyalty), the “friend or foe”
principle and whether the recruit can ensure any benefit
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To them, a parade as the manifestation of the army's
strength: the more war machines take part in a parade –
the stronger the army is. The “Z”-stickers and state TV prop-
agandists should enhance this, too. Perversive Putin's rule
cannot understand any reasons behind one's actions other
than self interest, and sees no point in addressing moral
reasons as part of their ideology. This is exactly why the
regime had underestimated the international resonance
set up by the war as such and war crimes in particular.
A pervert presumes that noone is endowed with empathy,
and those demonstrating compassion do so merely out of
the desire to seem better than others or in pursuit of com-
mercial gain. The regime was more than certain that when
faced with the choice between gas and some unknown
killed Ukrainians, all nations will choose gas – as they
themselves would have.
A pervert's lack of understanding of the neurotic structure
can be seen in the exported propaganda, filled with
guilt-tripping. One example is the footage featuring a
pilgrim maintaining that the bombardment of Ukrainian
homes is the retribution for their sins. Another character
used to induce guilt is the wife of Medvedchuk, who fled
to the aggressor country having previously reaped the
fruits of each and every sin of the Ukrainian society. This is
as though German Nazi had used Eva Brown or Magda
Goebbels for agitation.
Interestingly, our neurotic reactions stand in the way of
getting the hints perverts themselves give us about their
perversions and desires. For instance, Putin's propaganda
keeps going on about their country's very “special path”,
incompatible with the Western values and practices; “we
are different”, they claim, “in that a pervert cannot accept
the path of neurosis; we cannot simply accept the Law: our
special path means both accepting the Law and rejecting
it”
Hence, there is no “enigmatic Russian soul”: this is simply
a sadistic perversion - an issue far from enigmatic, and a
well-researched one. The clue to the Russian Soul riddle
can be found in our own soul – guilt-ridden, and thus una-
ble to discern perversion.
The feeling of guilt, however, is not completely foreign to
a pervert – it's just that they understand it differently. To a
sadist, guilt equals inducing a sadistic desire, then
ending up in a sadist's hands. In a perverse society,
the deadliest sins are being castrated, weak, and even
a potential possibility of getting turned out – not to men-
tion the accomplished fact. In this sense, the Pilgrim's log-
ic becomes clear enough: Ukrainans are guilty of being
bombed because they allowed themselves to be bombed.
The adepts of Putin's propaganda sincerely believe that the
Russian Federation is the only free country, for it is the only
country that encourages sadism and abuse of the vulner-
able. Beat up a gay – and unless the gay is a deputy or
a celebrity, your deed will be approved of at all levels:
by the society, by individuals and even by law: it will incur
no punishment unless there are serious aggravating cir-
cumstances. The police, too, will try to sweep it under the
carpet, and your friends will back you up. In Putin's Russia
one is allowed to practice violence on condition that the
victim is weak and at least some legality is maintained. For
example, rape is not justifiable – well, not unless the victim
“was wearing a short skirt”, “was drunk”, “was asking for it”,
“actually liked it”... This is the attitude numerous victims of
sexual abuse encounter when faced with the Russian legal
system. Victim-blaming commentaries will prevail under
each and every post or article about sexual harassment
- even if it ended up in a murder.
At the core of the Normality of Putin's Nazism is
the following principle: “bashing the vulnerable
is your natural right; the victim is always guilty,
because he / she is weak”. The pervert is the object of
jouissance: it's not the pervert, but the one who induced the
desire, that is to blame. It is therefore clear that a European,
who willingly waived their right to abuse, looks like a sim-
pleton, or worse – a victim: weak, woman-like, worthy of
nothing but contempt. At the core of the Normality of
Putin's Nazism is the following principle: “bashing
the vulnerable is your natural right; the victim is
always guilty, because he / she is weak”. The per-
vert is the object of jouissance: it's not the pervert, but the
one who induced the desire, that is to blame. It is therefore
clear that a European, who willingly waived their right to
abuse, looks like a simpleton, or worse – a victim: weak,
woman-like, worthy of nothing but contempt.
According to V. Surkov, chaos is the main product ex-
ported by the Russian Federation. He was right up to a
point: indeed, this is something beyond order – however,
as a classic pervert, he couldn't but turn everything up-
side-down. Firstly, this is not chaos, as it is not yet a psy-
chosis (the perverse Law still sets some boundaries) – this
product is called sadism. Secondly, it is import rather than
export.
When the adherents of Putin's Nazism adherents discov-
ered a lack of the freedom of violence (something they in
fact lack themselves), their outrage was beyond belief. To
a Nazi, weakness is a sin, which means that the “weak”
West has been corrupted by the deadliest (as understood
by the Russian World adepts) of sins. It is reasonable to
assume that homosexuality as such does not stir hatred in
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Let's not forget that a pervert couldn't care less about tra-
ditions or the salvation of the world. However, to a pervert
it has become the universal symbol of the guilt of weak-
ness, a pervert's trick that can justify hatred without a direct
reference to its cause. They will equally despise whoever
is endowed with weakness: the disabled, the senile, the
homeless, homosexuals, women, children, animals - the list
goes on; yet, since the Law prohibits to openly manifest this
attitude, sadism comes under a disguise of “traditional val-
ues” - while those are merely the traditional values
of a sadist.
With a naive narcissism of a pervert, the demiurgos and
seers of the Russian World wish to exert sadism for as long
as they are powerful, but once they become potential vic-
tims of abuse, they will emigrate to a place where senility
and malady are not subject to hatred and contempt. They
intend to seek medical aid, educate children and end their
earthly struggles in a country whose doctors have empa-
thy, rather than in the realm of “traditional values”.
Do perverts realize what forms the basis of their socie-
ty? In 2017, domestic violence was decriminalized. In
2020, within 10 days after the the #metoo campaign
was launched, amendments were adopted inflicting pun-
ishment for sexualised violence libel. The novelties were
backed up by the traditional values discourse. However,
perverts clearly realize what values are meant in fact: it's
the traditional right of the stronger one to exert sadism.
Do perverts realize what forms the basis of their socie-
ty? In 2017, domestic violence was decriminalized. In
2020, within 10 days after the the #metoo campaign
was launched, amendments were adopted inflicting pun-
ishment for sexualised violence libel. The novelties were
backed up by the traditional values discourse. However,
perverts clearly realize what values are meant in fact: it's
the traditional right of the stronger one to exert
sadism.
In a perverse society psychological or physical abuse of
vulnerable groups is regarded as manly and phallic. To
beat your wife or to build a stand-up comedy around
humiliating gays is not disgrace, it is machismo. Domes-
tic abusers are never “canceled”, quite the opposite: they
are considered “real men”, attractive partners. This can
be clearly seen it the society's attitude to children. While
declaring the importance of their interests, sadists in fact
pass the notorious “Dima Yakovlev's law” and support the
abduction of children from temporarily occupied Ukrain-
ian territories. Even the victims of pedophile fathers do not
get enough compassion and support, like, for instance, the
Khachaturian sisters, who had to fight through 7 circles of
hell to prove themselves innocent.
Going back to Surkov's proverbial “export of chaos”, it
is worth noting that the Russian Federation is the importer
rather than the exporter. Whatever Russia declares is part
of the Western train of thought. It strives to be outstanding,
but the issue is, the «Russian world» is unable to give rise to
any original ideas or novel concepts. On discovering the
deficit of freedom for violence, and seeing how sadistic
tendencies are repressed, the Russian World claimed all
violence its protectorate, providing it a refuge in a place
where violence feels at home. It turns out that whatever is
not welcomed in a civilized world is greeted with open
arms in the Russian World. Taliban, Yanukovitch, Tsariov,
Kiva, tax-evading celebrities, violence – all receives a
warm welcome. Apparently, in terms of chaos manage-
ment it is Russia that in fact helps the West to get rid of the
excess of violence, which the West cannot deal with due
to the principle of political correctness, since it encourages
aggressive tendencies.
Thus, one can clearly see what values the Russian world is
fighting for: it's the right to violence, the right of the stronger
one to torture the weaker one, in a society that will not
stand up for the victim. That said, it is not fighting against
Ukraine – rather, its enemies are strong and dangerous: it
is political correctness and the cancel culture, repressing
sadism and establishing the dictatorship of the victim. Not
being able to see the world beyond quantities and pos-
session, a perverse Nazist sees his struggle as expansion.
Unable to produce any contagious brilliant ideas, the Rus-
sian World fights for violence with the help of killings, tor-
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The factory of Nazism:
the role of propaganda

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Putin's propaganda is attributed the supernatural ability of
complete enslaving, and its ideologists are thought of as
diabolically treacherous black magi.
I am proposing the opposite hypothesis: there was
no diabolical plot whatsoever; instead, the perverse
sadists remain sadists while working out their ideological
programs.
Sadism is inherently tempting to some extent, and a
random combination of this and some other factors lead
to the rise of violence.
Russian opposition mistakenly believe that the main
problem is Russian's lack of access to alternative
sources of information. “Once their eyes are opened,
they will immediately start making revolutions...” Yet, the
hypothesis doesn't seem viable as soon as we see the
results of opinion polls in the “liberal” and “well-educated”
Moscow, with its free access to the Internet: the majority
supports the War. The “true Russians” hypothesis, as it turns
out, is a mere romantic phantasm. The problem is not a
lack of awareness of Twitter or VPN. The problem is that
propaganda has ceased to be an outside phenomenon
for the adepts.
As has already been stated above, a pervert is stuck
midway to subjectivation. His “me” is related to the realm
of the Imaginary rather than the realm of the Symbolical.
He has remained at the narcissistic stage, the stage of
“me” (moi). A neurotic builds his identifications upon both
the Imaginary and the Symbolical, that is, he checks and
balances his self-image against The Other. For example:
“I am a good specialist, because I strive to be one,
because my skills and expertise meet the requirements of
the society, and also because I am told I am.” A pervert,
stuck at the narcissistic stage, will generate his identities
like a child: “I want to be a fire-fighter, an astronaut,
the Minister of Foreign Affairs...” One bright example
well worth your time is Dmitry Gordon's interview with
Lukashenko, who is clearly stuck at the narcissistic stage.
In the interview, he talks of himself as a border guard (
which might in fact be true), an accordionist, a hockey
player, an exemplary father, holding his eighteen-year-
old son on his lap – whatever identity he can think of is
accepted.
At the core of Putins's propaganda, like any other
propaganda, there are two images: that of its adepts
and that of its enemies. However, in a society infected
with perversion made up of subjects with a fragile “me”,
propaganda becomes an almost major source of identity.
When a Nazi soldier, who rapes, kills and loots, watches
TV, where he is celebrated as a hero, a hero he starts
pretending to be. He doesn't need another source, as
this other source will condemn hims as a war criminal, his
“heroism” - as фекщсшен, and his trophy – as plunder.
Outside of the propaganda's realm, something
horrendous opens up to the inhabitant of the Russian
World. The “great” country is the most hated country in
the world, its president cosplays Hitler, its army commits
genocide, its conscripts are thrown into a vicious mincer,
each rocket strike diminishes the chances of a decent
pension, and looming ahead are the prospects of
becoming another North Korea, if not the nuclear winter.
In this coordinate plane, who is he (she)? He is no longer
a keen fighter for the Russian World. He is a less than
popular male whose main battle is the struggle with his
prostatitis, the battle he is losing so far. Or it's a school
principal, whose fight against her pupils' dyed hair and
pierced noses is no longer the fight against NATO and
Biden, but a sheer despotism of an ageing lady. Both of
them, as it turns out, are living in a Nazi country, rolling
towards complete isolation and poverty.
The role of propaganda in
the life of its adept
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Another role, connected with the above-described one,
is the signifying of reality in a simple, clear and compli-
mentary way – a way convenient to a pervert, with his
fragmented perception and imability to penetrate into
the essence of things. When a Bryansk commoner opens
his youtube, Soloviov-Kiseliov-Simonian will show him a
world in which Russia is a great country, its army is the
second biggest in the world, defeating vastly superior
enemy forces, suffering no losses of war machines or
troops, if only “a negative growth of staff numbers and
military equipment”, and a downpour of social benefits
is expected soon.
Difficulties are not silenced, however: the devious designs
of the USA, NATO, the West and their allies – Ukrainian
Nazi – are successfully being dealt with by the govern-
ment. Whatever is not yet dealt with, has been taken in
direct control by the President, and should anything not
work according to the plan, Russia has enough nuclear
missiles to incinerate the entire America. In this world, the
focus of attention is he, the “True Russian”, a representa-
tive of a great nation, the bearer of Christ's holy light, the
last fighter for traditional values, without whom the world
will fall into the abyss of Paganism and sodomy.
Let's imagine that a Russian, who believes himself to be
endowed with critical thinking, tries to read the opposi-
tional “Dozhd” or “Medusa” and comes across an article
describing the bloodbath made by his compatriots shar-
ing the same ideology. Such media tend to describe the
war as evil beyond any human understanding. What our
hero feels at this moment is unbearable excitement – it
seems he dreads losing his mind, engulfed by jouissance.
Marquis De Sade's crimes were not nearly as numerous
as those of an average Russian army soldier – in fact, he
merely succumbed to the wave of perverse sadistic fan-
tasies. However, he spent a good half of his life in mental
hospitals. Our hero closes his eyes tightly, not to look his
desire – the uncontrollable folly of violence – in the eye.
Unable to recognize own motives, he will make the only
conclusion available to him: the problem lies with “Me-
dusa”, “Dozhd” and all other “foreign agents”, the fifth
column. Enraged by mass media as such, he will close
the site forever and go back to Soloviev, Kiseliov and Si-
monyan, who will assure him that killings and shelling are
not justifiable... unless we are fighting with the Nazi, and
that wishing children death is unjustifiable.... unless the
stories about killed children are all fake. Now things are
back to normal: the Law has changed. Noone is to be
bombed but the Nazi, and taking pleasure in watching
fakes is not illegal.
Signifying the reality
Ptopaganda as past of the perverse mechanism
of handling Law

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As perversion is a psychic structure, true perverts are rel-
atively few. If they were numerous, the humanity would
either have already ceased to exist, or turned into some-
thing completely different from the society we live in now.
Yet, the discourse of propaganda, supported by over a
half of the country's population, is overtly sadistic, creat-
ed by perverts for perverts. Such perverse, transgressive
rhetoric could not have been re-constructed by cynical
neurotics; this is a product of a pervert's psyche, not char-
acteristic even of a sociopath. What, then, made it possi-
ble to infect an entire country? And what is the root of the
evil - the pervert or the perverse propaganda?
It is not unreasonable to predict that a lot of future re-
search will be devoted to the phenomenon of nazifica-
tion. In a nutshell, this is how I see it for now. A pervert
comes to power and surrounds himself with a few other
perverts. In turn, those create a network of like-minded
people – that is, perverts, - which is only logical, as
a perverse general would not ally with a moralist that
would be outraged by war crimes – instead, he will part-
ner with a pervert, who will take pleasure in bloody en-
tertainment and before joining the commander in a sau-
na where he will be the first to suggest calling a prostitute.
Thus, the network of perverts is growing.
At the same time, certain ambitious people willing to
achieve success to that end do some research into the
way of thinking and actions of those in power. Later on,
unconcsciously, they come to mimic them - and end up
perverted.
Perversion, and sadism in particular, is seductive. Cer-
tain sadistic tendencies (J. Laсan does not separate sad-
ism from masochism, so it would be more correct to talk
about sado-masochistic tendencies) are characteristic of
most people to varying degrees – but those tendencies
will be vented in a society that provides access to edu-
cation, allows to choose an occupation and guarantees
social lifts.
Violence enchants and attracts: otherwise, the industry of
horror movies, shooters, violent computer games, BDSM
parties, sport would not exist – and, if we are to believe
Stanley Kubrick, the civilization as such would have
disappeared. Suppressing most of their sadistic tenden-
cies, neurotics are unaware of them. However, this hi-
bernating perversion may awaken, for example, when a
psychic regression takes place. Everyone, perhaps, has
an acquaintance, normally timid and quiet – that is, until
they get seriously drunk. All of a sudden, the shy type will
turn into an aggressive bully looking for trouble. This is
one example of psychic regression: under the influence
of alcohol the suppressed masochism surfaces. One sign
of Russia's deep psychic setback was its leadership in the
anti-vaccination campaign, which remained unnoticed
by most.
Hibernating perversion can be awoken by a pervert,
who can do what a neurotic dreads even thinking about.
A pervert enchants both male and female hysterics. Re-
member the hype around the “50 Shades of Grey”, a
book and a film of very mediocre literary or ideologi-
cal value. A great many histerics were seduced by the
promise to show a sadist as The Master (that is, aware
of their lust).
Quite unexpectedly, in early 2000s a new manifestation
of Putin's image emerged: a bare-torso macho riding a
horse. At the same time, a song called “Someone like Pu-
tin” was written, and a calendar was published featuring
half-naked activists from the pro-Putin political movement
“Nashi” (“Ours!”). As a rule, Russian imagemakers do not
go any further than exploiting the paternalist archetype
(considered to be the most suitable for Russians due to
their innate tendency to succumb to “the firm hand”),
and a system of images from Malkin and Souchkov. This
means that the image of a sadist, rapist, macho emerged
on its own, out of the very essence of sadism. Discovered
by political technologists, it was subsequently conscious-
ly inflated.
Perverse propaganda as
the new Normality
Are all proponents of Putin's Nazism perverse
sadists? Contagious sadism

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